Blog: Illustrating Science, and what happened along the way
-Krista Anandakuttan
making “Giant Pacific Octopus”
The other day I was asked about my process for "Giant Pacific Octopus," a printed digital painting hanging in an exhibit. It has been in several shows over the past few years (Illustrating Nature, Santa Cruz; "A Closer Look at Wild Things," Santa Cruz; 2011 GNSI...
3 Nests
Mixed media sketch of three nests, April 2012 Left to right they are: unidentified (help anyone? found in a grassy wetland/orchard woodland habitat here in West Sonoma County; 3- 4 inches across); Common yellowthroat ; hummingbird (these two are specimens from the...
Horizons (or Edges)
Mixed media sketch from earlier today, from the bluff above Gleason Beach in Sonoma County. The highway runs between the fence and the bluff... Erosion! This is a great wildflower moment along the Sonoma Coast, ground irises happening and lupine beginning. Must do...
Out Sketching: What’s under the woodpile
Mud, salamanders & invertebrates...tiny eggs and sprouting seeds, decomposing plants. An orange centipede, ruby red ladybug beetle, slugs, snails, and one bright blue "roly-poly"-- April 2012
Upcoming Exhibits & Open Studio: “Art at the Source”
Sebastopol's "Art at the Source" begins May 18 with a preview exhibit at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts , and community showcase exhibits in May. I am thrilled to be opening my studio to the public on the first two weekends in June, the 2 - 3rd, and 9 - 10th, 10...
Out Sketching: North Bay Horizons
Bodega Head, graphite and colored pencilSan Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, looking towards Mt. Tamalpais, watercolor San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, watercolor
California Landscape 10,000 BC
"California Archaeology Month 2012: The Pleistocene-Holocene Interface ca. 10,000 BC" is a mixed media piece, selected by the Society for California Archaeology for this year's official Archaeology Month poster. I show a specific CA environment changing through time,...
Exhibit: Art of Nature 2012
The Art of Nature is a group show of GNSI- CA artists (Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, California Chapter). Once again, we have the opportunity to fill the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History with our favorite recent works. This year I'll show "California at...
Pepperwood Natural History: Biotic Environment Class
I will be a sketching and biological illustration instructor for the March 31st class: Santa Rosa Junior College Credit Class Pepperwood Natural History: Biotic Environment (2 units) BIO/ERTHS 85.2 A survey of the natural history of the Pepperwood Preserve,...
Cretaceous California
'Cretaceous California' is a mixed media piece I created for the Bureau of Land Management in 2010. I worked with a scientist at the Hollister Field Office and obtained fossils to use in several illustrations of Margeriella Cretacea, or the Moreno Conifer, an extinct...
fresco secco
Sita detail, fresco secco mural panel in progress Mural artists in Kerala, south India, have painted this way for centuries. I learned from one painter there some years ago, and I have recently started to use those techniques again. Red: iron oxide Ochre: iron oxide...